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Explain what is meant by the statement, "on any single trial, we do not expect the expectation."
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" In probability and statistics, the expectation (or expected value) of a random variable is a measure of the center of its distribution. It represents the average outcome we would expect if we could repeat an experiment an infinite number of times. Show more…
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